Hi Frank and Larry,

Thanks for the info on installing the CST4 and keyboard. I have Windows 7 and
had no trouble in installing the CST program. I'm wondering if the dictionary
can be made to work the way Digital Pali Reader works by pointing to and
clicking on a word. Does anyone know?

Thanks,

Best, Bryan







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From: frank <fcckuan@...>
To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, December 31, 2010 1:20:45 PM
Subject: [Pali] pali keyboard input mapping, cst4 on windows 7 pc


Thanks Larry for the tips on getting cst4 installed on Windows 7 pc's. I
was also inspired to finally install the pali-keyboard input software
from the same cst4 area: http://www.tipitaka.org/keyboard/

If I knew it was that easy to set up and start typing pali special
characters, I would have installed that a long time ago.

The page I listed shows the keyboard mappings, I made my own shorthand
notes here: What I noticed is that 9 out of the 14 special characters
map intuitively, e.g. the keyboard [a] produces " ā" with the macron, so
we really only have to memorize or write on a little post-it note to put
next to our keyboard the 5 miscreant special cases.

[ctrl]+[alt]+[ ] : [y] → ñ [a] → ā [I] → ī [h] → ś [u] → ū [d] → ḍ [v] →
ḥ [l] → ḷ [m] → ṃ

[g] → ṅ [n] → ṇ [r] → ṛ [s] → ṣ [t] → ṭ

[ctrl]+[alt]+[shift]+[ ] : produces uppercase version of pali letter

14 special pali letters. 9 of 14 map intuitively






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